Surgery is a demanding job that requires doctors to reach deep into the human body to remove tumors and other disease-related issues. A retired CBC reporter showed us how important robots like the Da Vinci surgical robot can be in these high-risk operations.
According to Glenn Deir, he would still be suffering from a nasty tumor in his tonsils or, worse, would have died of cancer if the Da Vinci robot hadn’t helped with his surgery. In an article he wrote, Deir states that in order to remove the cancerous tumor, doctors must cut the tonsils, tongue, and throat with precision, and that no one volunteers for this procedure. So his only hope was a Da Vinci surgical robot whose “fingers” could reach places a human hand could not.
The surgery was successful and Deir’s tumor was removed; After her tongue, throat and tonsils were cut, she was given time to heal and learn to speak again. Without da Vinci, the surgery might have been very different. The doctor states that to reach the tumor, they would have to split his jaw in two and remove it manually.
Instead, the Da Vinci surgical robot and Dr. With the help of the guiding hands of Martin Corsten (the doctor who controlled the robot during the surgery), it only required an incision in his neck. This story and the development of robots that can perform operations autonomously show how important robotics has become in the surgical world.
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